Attacked by shark, stitches his own wound and goes for a beer

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An incident that could have turned out nasty, but I couldn't resist a small chuckle when I read this one:

Invercargill shark attack doctor stitches own leg | Stuff.co.nz

When Mr Grant managed to get rid of the shark he tried to get the attention of his three friends, who were spearfishing just around the bay. But his mates did not take him seriously.

"I thought surely he hasn't been bitten, there's no way he has been bitten, he's got to be taking the p...," Mackley Lindsay said.

But he wasn't, instead he sat on the shore stitching his own leg.

His friends carried on fishing while Mr Grant tacked the wounds together with a needle and thread from his first-aid kit for his pig-hunting dogs.

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Friend Jim Robins downplayed the event at the time. "He was walking so it couldn't have been that bad," he said.

However, his friends did do him a favour - taking him to the tavern in Colac Bay before the hospital.

The pub at Colac Bay served him a beer alongside a few bandages to stop his leg from dripping blood on the carpet.

"It would have been great if I had killed it because there was a fishing competition on at the Colac Bay Tavern," Mr Grant said. He received "a bit of banter" from his colleagues at Southland Hospital while they stitched him up.

That guy definitely is a bit more macho than I am...
 
Interview on tonights news with this guy was great - I love the way he had time to stop for a beer :)
 
Funny story. Lucky he did not get an artery severed.
 
I knew without even looking that this happened down under. Those folks are something.
 
"It would have been great if I had killed it because there was a fishing competition on at the Colac Bay Tavern," Mr Grant said."

Lost my respect
 
I dunno. Is the species protected? If so, then he probably should abstain from killing it, all things considered. If not, I don't really see a problem with it. The guy was spearfishing, and the critter tried to take a bite of him, which makes it doubly fair game (an eye for an eye and all that).

Anyway, I think the comment was pretty well in character with the rest of the story :D
 
fix leg first... go to pub....then chase shark and bite it back.
 
I knew without even looking that this happened down under. Those folks are something.
Could've happened in Finland, too (except for the fact that there are no serious sharks in Finland).
 
The most noteworthy thing to me about this incident is that he sought aid underwater and was, if I understand correctly, seen but basically written off and joking around.

Richard.
 

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